Right here’s a group curated by The Related Press’ leisure journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming companies and music and online game platforms this week.
MOVIES
— Jennifer Lopez, rom-com queen, returns to the style she’s most recognized with in “Shotgun Wedding,” premiering Friday on Amazon’s Prime Video. Lopez stars with Josh Duhamel as a pair whose Philippines beach-resort vacation spot wedding ceremony goes awry when the marriage occasion is taken hostage. For Lopez, who last year wed Ben Affleck in a Las Vegas drive-thru chapel, it’s her second wedding-themed romantic comedy within the final yr, following 2022’s “Marry Me.” This one, not less than, options “White Lotus” star Jennifer Coolidge (it’s now Hollywood legislation that she should star in all exotically positioned tales).
— “black-ish” creator Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill co-wrote “You People,” a brand new Netflix comedy a few Los Angeles interracial couple and the tradition conflict of their households. Lauren London and Hill star because the couple, with Eddie Murphy and Nia Lengthy enjoying her Muslim mother and father, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny enjoying his Jewish mother and father. Barris directs the movie, streaming Friday.
MUSIC
— Singer-songwriter Sam Smith is releasing “Gloria,” an album the singer-songwriter calls a “coming of age.” Early singles embrace the epically horny area pop “Unholy” that includes Kim Petras, and the intimate, self-affirming ballad “Love Me More” with the lyrics: “Every day I’m trying not to hate myself/But lately it’s not hurting like it did before.” Smith recorded the album in Jamaica, Los Angeles and London, and says: “It feels like emotional, sexual and spiritual liberation. It was beautiful, with this album, to sing freely again. Oddly, it feels like my first-ever record. And it feels like a coming of age.”
— Have a good time Roberta Flack, one in every of music’s finest voices, within the feature-length documentary, “Roberta,” airing Tuesday as a part of PBS “American Masters” series. The film “explores the depth and complexity of her lyrical and thematic choices as well as the sophisticated mix of classical and soul influences on her style.” This yr marks the fiftieth anniversary of the discharge of Flack’s landmark fourth album, “Killing Me Softly” and she has a brand new kids’s ebook that tells of her musical beginnings, “The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music.”
— For a sardonic take a look at life go no additional than Elle King, whose spiky album “Come Get Your Wife” shall be a welcome addition to 2023. The nation assortment celebrates all sides of the artist, from “being a hot mess, a glorious excess and a woman coming into her own.” There are the tongue-in-cheek singles “Tulsa” and “Try Jesus,” the latter of which finds King trying to a better type of relationship since males in her life are letting her down. It’s accompanied by a hysterical video of her dressed as all of the dangerous guys as she outlets in a greenback retailer.
— Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— The brand new Fox collection “Accused” has an fascinating premise. Every episode encompasses a new forged, with an individual on trial for against the law. The collection then explains what occurred — from the attitude of the defendant, main up to the results of the trial. Forged members embrace Michael Chiklis, Jill Hennessy and Malcom-Jamal Warner. Howard Gordon, who created “24” and “Homeland” is an government producer. “Accused,” which debuted Sunday is predicated on a BBC program of the identical title.
— “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion” author, director Rian Johnson describes his new present “Poker Face,” starring Natasha Lyonne, as a “how done it” and not a “who done it.” Lyonne performs Charlie, a wise-cracking, pleasant drifter who has an uncanny potential to instantly know if somebody is mendacity. Charlie is on the run from a on line casino mobster, working odd jobs and encountering new folks. She additionally typically finds herself with a front-row seat to mysteries, setting off her inner lie detector, when she suspects somebody will not be telling the reality. If critics are appropriate, “Poker Face” could possibly be Peacock’s first hit. Its first three episodes drop Monday and the remainder of season one shall be doled out one-by-one on a weekly foundation.
— Alicia Rancilio
VIDEO GAMES
— New York, New York: If you may make it there, you’ll make it anyplace. Which is nice for Frey Holland, the heroine of Sq. Enix’s Forspoken, who finds herself yanked out of the Massive Apple and dropped into a blinding however blighted world referred to as Athia that’s dominated by a trio of depraved sorceresses. Thankfully, Frey picks up a couple of spells and some mad parkour abilities, and she’s outfitted with a chatty, sarcastic bracelet that’s keen to assist her discover her method house. Forspoken’s designers labored on 2016’s Remaining Fantasy XV, and whereas their new recreation is probably not as epic, it would maintain followers over till Remaining Fantasy XVI arrives this summer time. Frey’s journey begins Tuesday on PlayStation 5 and PC.